Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.

My job is to help you fall in love.

Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of our civilization birthing itself. ...Science fiction is central to everything we've ever done, and people who make fun of science fiction writers don't know what they're talking about.

Kerosene," he said, because the silence had lengthened, "is nothing but perfume to me.

Those women like to see their tongues dance.

When I was a young man, I didn't think about having a family. My wife and I were too poor to have babies. Then all of a sudden, one came along and scared the hell out of us because we had no money. Once the baby arrives, you make do somehow. You fall in love with the baby and life adjusts itself. You find you don't need as much money as you thought. When that happens, you can ask the questions that should have come before the baby.

Don't write for money. Write because you love to do something. If you write for money, you won't write anything worth reading.